We are Korean Moms in training dedicated to psycho-analyzing our moms, reliving horrible memories of embarrassment and dread for the benefit of the public...all the while laughing like a wheezy grandpa. Someone needs to pay for our therapy...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

#25 Non-tattered clothing

The enemy of every Korean Mom? Abercrombie and Fitch. They do not understand why anyone would purchase jeans with holes deliberately ripped in them. They do not understand why said jeans cost double the price of the jeans they bought at Nordstrom Rack and were made in Korea. It baffles them that their children will continuously wear any type of clothing with holes in them at all; worn in over time or bought. My mom once put knee patches from Joanne's Fabrics on a brand new pair of jeans I bought from A&F, covering the precious holes I had meticulously singled out from a stack of jeans. Not the cool patches in the shape of 70's flowers or ladybugs; I'm talking about knee patches that you buy in a farming catalogue. Needless to say, she made me wear them to school and I looked like the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz.

when i was 9, my my aunt (mom's older sis) came to visit from korea. we went on an infamous korean bus tour out of california to visit the grand canyon and las vegas. during the trip, my aunt would complain about the long sleeves on my jacket. one night she just cut them off. i didn't know till i woke up.

My mom has a way with "altering" clothes... Yes, I've had the retarded patch sewn on my designer jeans and yes, she's chopped off my long sleeve to make a 3/4... She swears it's much better this way... She never sees an article of clothing that she can't make better...